Hugo

It is impossible to summarise a person's entire character in a few paragraphs. But still, I'll attempt to give you an idea of the people who are the subject of this blog. Feel free to form your own ideas about me!

Hugo is fantastic. I just love to be around him.

He loves to understand the limitations of things. How fast can he run. How tall can you grow. If you tell him that something will break when he throws it, then he throws it to see if this is true. How loud can he play this instrument, and how quiet. If this cardboard box can sustain his weight, and what happens if he jumps up and down on top of it. The highest thing that he can climb, and the highest thing that he can jump down from.




I often tell him that he is like a goat. He just loves climbing.
He hates to be told he is a 'little man'. Sometimes people say things like 'sorry little man' when they accidentally bump into him. He gets visibly upset, and fair enough really. I never say 'sorry old woman' or 'sorry fat man' when I bump into people. He also hates to be tired, and will rarely admit it. He will happily come to bed because it is time to sleep, but not because he needs sleep.


He is also very bright. He loves to understand things in great detail and quickly exhausts anybodies knowledge with questions. We often begin with questions like 'how do the wheels go around on a car' and end up with 'what is energy' or 'how does gravity pull things'. I didn't think of these questions until after my physics degree!


Perhaps this is why he loves to try new things. New food, new places, new people. He is confident socially and confident in his abilities. He is everything that I wish I could have been when I was a child. Perhaps, with his help, I can still be those things.

And his hugs... they make me feel so deeply connected to him and completely, completely loved. I only hope that I can show the same feelings back to him.